Quotes About Wisdom

When most of the people who know the most about a subject are seen to agree, despite their competitiveness, then it's generally wise for policy to begin by paying heed to expert advice.

The world may end later than the year 2060, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit. —Sir Isaac Newton

all facts are created equal.

It takes great wisdom, maturity, and force of will to overcome ingrained human egotism and say -- "Hey, I can fool myself! I might even be wrong, from time to time." 

Nothing is beyond us, the new legends say. So choose well.

It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.

Knowledge is like a sphere; the greater its volume, the larger its contact with the unknown.

I often quoted a popular Chinese proverb when addressing our leaders: "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Pretending to others that your opponents are stupid may sometimes be a sensible tactic. Believing that they are is usually a serious mistake.

You should always listen to your woman, and then make your own decision. If you choose to go with your woman's suggestion even when deep in your heart you feel that another decision is more wise, you are, in effect, saying, "I don't trust my own wisdom." You are weakening yourself by telling yourself this. You are weakening your woman's trust in you: why should she trust your wisdom if you don't?

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry. That might explain a lot, Beldin noted blandly. We should have fed you more often when you were younger. You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that? Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked. "Not if I can avoid it, no.

You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

I wouldn't do that, Silk advised. Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to make you nervous. Nervouser, Garion corrected. I'm already nervous. Is there such a word as 'nervouser'? Silk asked Belgarath curiously. There is now, Belgarath replied. Garion just invented it. I wish I could invent a word, Silk said admiringly to Garion.

Then you've learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.